Fox News’ Bill O’reilly just spoke about this jerkwad, which reminded me that I wanted to post my thoughts on it. Frankly, I’m at a loss to do any more than echo the comments made by thinking people all over the networks on this.
I made a local copy of the essay in case it fades from public view, and if I ever need a reminder of the venemous anti-American sentiment that is present, and often welcomed in our institutions of higher learning, this document will serve nicely. If the link above goes dead, I’ll post the document here, where it will not be subject to anyone else’s whims of political correctness.
“Well, really. Let’s get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America’s global financial empire – the “mighty engine of profit” to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved – and they did so both willingly and knowingly. Recourse to “ignorance” – a derivative, after all, of the word “ignore” – counts as less than an excuse among this relatively well-educated elite. To the extent that any of them were unaware of the costs and consequences to others of what they were involved in – and in many cases excelling at – it was because of their absolute refusal to see. More likely, it was because they were too busy braying, incessantly and self-importantly, into their cell phones, arranging power lunches and stock transactions, each of which translated, conveniently out of sight, mind and smelling distance, into the starved and rotting flesh of infants. If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I’d really be interested in hearing about it.”